{"id":6609,"date":"2015-10-17T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2015-10-16T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T18:53:17","slug":"public-knowledge-celebrates-court-decision-in-happy-birthday-case-public-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/public-knowledge-celebrates-court-decision-in-happy-birthday-case-public-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Knowledge Celebrates Court Decision in &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; Case &#8211; Public Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! This was the very case that I wanted to but didn&#8217;t mention in my itty bitty post on the hokey cokey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, the district court in Marya v. Warner\/Chappell Music, Inc. invalidated one of the most famous, longest lasting, and controversial rights claims in music: Warner\/Chappell\u2019s ownership of the copyright in the universally known song Happy Birthday<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/press-release\/public-knowledge-celebrates-court-decision-in-happy-birthday-case\">Public Knowledge Celebrates Court Decision in &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; Case &#8211; Public Knowledge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! This was the very case that I wanted to but didn&#8217;t mention in my itty bitty post on the hokey cokey. Yesterday, the district court in Marya v. Warner\/Chappell Music, Inc. invalidated one of the most famous, longest lasting, and controversial rights claims in music: Warner\/Chappell\u2019s ownership of the copyright in the universally known&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/public-knowledge-celebrates-court-decision-in-happy-birthday-case-public-knowledge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public Knowledge Celebrates Court Decision in &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; Case &#8211; Public Knowledge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-copyright"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6781,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/settlement-over-happy-birthday-copyright-puts-song-in-public-domain-reuters\/","url_meta":{"origin":6609,"position":0},"title":"Settlement over &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; copyright puts song in public domain | Reuters","author":"leems","date":"December 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A settlement has been reached in a U.S. lawsuit with Warner\/Chappell Music over the copyright to \"Happy Birthday to You\" that will put one of the world's most recognizable songs in the public domain, according to court papers released on Wednesday and a source close to the case. 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